Cop Drives 770 Miles to Get her Home After Town Rallies to Find Missing Dog

When a teen died in a car crash on spring break, a town came together to rescue her dog, and a police officer drove 770 miles to reunite the dog with her family.

Sgt. Jonathon Whaley was the first on the scene of the crash that killed McKenzie Catron who’d been on a spring break trip to Florida from the University of Arkansas. Another teen in the car told the officer that McKenzie’s pit bull Kai had run away after the accident.

The lawyer who put up the reward money, Benjamin Irwin, ended up finding Kai after two days of searching. With no one to claim the reward, Irwin donated the money to the shelter from which McKenzie adopted Kai.

“We just really wanted this family to have this piece of their family back, something to help remember their daughter,” he told the Birmingham News.

Sgt. Whaley then volunteered to make the 12-hour drive to deliver Kai home to her family, saying he felt “God impressing on me” to make the 770-mile drive to Bentonville, Arkansas.